{"id":168494,"date":"2023-07-28T18:22:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T23:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/retina-cells-cultured-on-nanofiber-scaffolds-could-help-treat-blindness"},"modified":"2023-07-28T18:22:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T23:22:29","slug":"retina-cells-cultured-on-nanofiber-scaffolds-could-help-treat-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/retina-cells-cultured-on-nanofiber-scaffolds-could-help-treat-blindness","title":{"rendered":"Retina cells cultured on nanofiber scaffolds could help treat blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/retina-cells-cultured-on-nanofiber-scaffolds-could-help-treat-blindness3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have found a way to use nanotechnology to create a 3D \u201cscaffold\u201d to grow cells from the retina\u2014paving the way for potential new ways of treating a common cause of blindness.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers, led by Professor Barbara Pierscionek from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), have been working on a way to successfully grow <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/retinal+pigment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">retinal pigment<\/a> epithelial (RPE) cells that stay healthy and viable for up to 150 days. RPE cells sit just outside the neural part of the retina, and when damaged, can cause vision to deteriorate. Their work is published in Materials &amp; Design.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time this technology, called \u201celectrospinning,\u201d has been used to create a scaffold on which the RPE cells could grow, and could revolutionize treatment for one of age-related macular degeneration, one of the world\u2019s most common vision complaints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found a way to use nanotechnology to create a 3D \u201cscaffold\u201d to grow cells from the retina\u2014paving the way for potential new ways of treating a common cause of blindness. Researchers, led by Professor Barbara Pierscionek from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), have been working on a way to successfully grow retinal pigment epithelial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}